The Arizona champion., 1887-09-24
WEEKLY CHAMPION
SATURDAY. SEPT. a4, 1887.
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.

many deaths being recorded.
 The greater portion of the city of Washington is suffering from water famine.
 Centennial day was appropriately commemorated at Philadelphia.
 New York streets are flooded with anarchist circulars denouncing the Chicago authorities.
 There have been 11s deaths from cholera in Messina in three days.
 Thousands of people in Asia Minor are starving.
 President Cleveland has finally de- cided that it will not be possible for him to visit the Pacific coast.
 Santa Rosa. in California, is having a strong boom.
 The President attended a banquet of the Hibernian Society at Philadel. Phia, on Monday last.
 The safe of the Darke countv(OO Treasury was found open and s4S, 900 of the funds are missing. Treasure, Simon and his son Harry, have been arrested and charged with the rob. bery.
 Frank Hurd has returned from Flu. rope and will leave New York soon to enter the canvass in Ohio.
 The Governor of Indiana boasts that the penitentiaries of that State contain fewer inmates now than ever before.
 The puplic debt of the Dominion of Canada now is saaS, 4o4,s6I, an in crease of S5,467, ,699, in the past two months.
 By declining to attend the Fair at Dalles, Texas, President Cleveland missed chance of seeing a real, live, 5-legged calf.
 Mercer Beasly J., the eldest son of Chief Justice Beasly of New Jersey shot himself through the head, at Jersey City and died instantly.
 In the accident on the Midland Railroad near Doncaster, England, last week, twenty-four persons were killed and many of the injured can. not recover. Defective signaling was ihe cause of the accident.
 In a Pittsburg theater the other night, citizen arose in his seat and violently hurled a potato at a dude who was examining his (the citizens) wife through an opera glass, and thereupon three or four hundred per. sons vigorously applauded the bus. band.
 It is thought probable the counsel for the condemned Chicago Anarch- ist will apply for a writ of error to Justice Samuel t. Miller of the Uni ted States Supreme Court. Justice Miller is known to be strongly oppo. sed to capital punishment, and his convictions on this subject may prob ably induce him to grant a writ of error, should he be applied to for that purpose.
 Gen. Malone and Senator Riddle. berger are trying to keep things hot tor each other since theIr falling out. The suit of Mahone against Riddle ber6er on bond for S5oo has term mated In jury disas The second case oi the same against the 2 me for SI ( oO was ConInued until Inc next term of court at Woodstock, Va.
 A tornado originating near Adrian, Mlcn., passed iuur miles west of To- leUo, O., Tuesuav, and did much ! damage 10 the Northwestern Insane As, lum. Several roofs were blown 1 away, but no one IS reported injured. !
 Cardinal Gibbons has authorized i denial of the statement that he sup pressed the papers relating to the Nc GlyHn case, sent Tn his care | To Rome. He states that, far from suppressing the contents of the letters sent by hlm, he was very care ful to communicate them to the Caid | Pr lect of the Propaganda.
 Many years ago James McCurry, of Laur, ms county, s. C., went to California. Sometime afterwards he wrote home for money, and his broth er.in,law, George W. billiard boi- rowed SIoo which he sent 10 him. MT. Mo Curry died recently and Mir. Dillard's two children are named in his will for legacies amounting to SI,6oo, 900 If your brother.iu.law goes to California don't fail to send him money when he writes for IL